on thursday, president obama meets this year's nobel prize winners at the white house. friday sees the official end of the 2012 hurricane season which saw 19 named storms, the third highest number ever. the word "thanksgiving" has a very real meaning for our contributor and "national geographic" photographer joel sartori. >> back home in nebraska, thanksgiving means gratitude, a look back at the past year, to pause to hold hands around the table and count our blessings. at our house, we hold hands tight these days. my wife kathy, a search-year breast cancer survivor, had a recurrence in january. her mother passed away not long after. i thought the only way things could get worse was if she backed over our dog in the driveway. how wrong i was. on a july vacation in minnesota we found a small painless lump on the neck of our 18-year-old son cole. five days later at the doctor's office we were facing a stage three lymphoma with chemo until the end of the year. that's when the condolences started in. friends approached us haltingly as if we had already lost a child. they as